…while new tents are pitched in California
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November 17, 2011, Thursday
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PROTESTERS at the University of California, Berkeley, pitched tents on Tuesday night in defiance of campus officials a week after police removed a nascent anti-Wall Street encampment.
The late-night escalation by students and other protesters followed a day of peaceful demonstrations against economic inequality and cuts to higher-education spending and set the stage for a possible showdown with police.
It also came hours after nerves on the campus, famed for its 1960s student activism, were jarred by an afternoon shooting in a computer lab that police said appeared unrelated to the rallies in Sproul Plaza, about a kilometer away.
Police estimated the size of the crowd reached as many as 3,700 people at its peak a few hours after dark.
The mood was festive as the night wore on, with the crowd diminishing and police keeping a low-key presence at the fringe of the plaza. Police Lieutenant Alex Yao said police were "working with university administrators at this point to try to determine a course of action overnight."
UC Berkeley police said they shot and wounded a man who drew a gun from his backpack in the lab at the Haas School of Business and displayed it in a threatening manner. The man, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital for surgery, the university said, but no one else was hurt.
News of the shooting spread quickly on campus as the university transmitted text alerts to students. Protesters sent out their own Twitter message declaring they would not be deterred from rebuilding an "Occupy Cal Encampment" torn down by police the previous week.
The late-night escalation by students and other protesters followed a day of peaceful demonstrations against economic inequality and cuts to higher-education spending and set the stage for a possible showdown with police.
It also came hours after nerves on the campus, famed for its 1960s student activism, were jarred by an afternoon shooting in a computer lab that police said appeared unrelated to the rallies in Sproul Plaza, about a kilometer away.
Police estimated the size of the crowd reached as many as 3,700 people at its peak a few hours after dark.
The mood was festive as the night wore on, with the crowd diminishing and police keeping a low-key presence at the fringe of the plaza. Police Lieutenant Alex Yao said police were "working with university administrators at this point to try to determine a course of action overnight."
UC Berkeley police said they shot and wounded a man who drew a gun from his backpack in the lab at the Haas School of Business and displayed it in a threatening manner. The man, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital for surgery, the university said, but no one else was hurt.
News of the shooting spread quickly on campus as the university transmitted text alerts to students. Protesters sent out their own Twitter message declaring they would not be deterred from rebuilding an "Occupy Cal Encampment" torn down by police the previous week.
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